Common accidents and how to treat them / by Andrew Wilson and others.

  • Andrew Wilson
Date:
1886
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    with sufficient nerve, the wound may be cauterized with a red-hot poker. This, however, must be done immediately to be of any service. Give stimulants very freely, either whisky or brandy. The patient may be made intoxicated, it will prevent more dangerous symptoms arising; and it must be remembered that, after a snake- bite, it requires a considerable amount of alcohol to produce alco- holic excitement. This mode of treatment is common in American settlements, and experience has shown that it is successful even after the bite of dangerous varieties of reptiles. White Precipitate.—Occasionally used as an outward appli- cation in domestic medicine. Commonly found in the house, how- ever, in the form of an ointment. It is not a very powerful poison, and, although it may produce somewhat alarming symptoms, no great danger need be apprehended unless a large dose has been taken. Symptoms.—Purging, with severe pain; vomiting, and cold clammy skin. Treatment.—Give an emetic at once, followed by white of egg beaten up with milk. Yew.—This favourite tree is poisonous in all its parts, the leaves are sometimes chewed, or the berries eaten by children. Symptoms.—Convulsions and unconsciousness, coldness of the body. There may be vomiting. Treatment.—An emetic, followed by hot water and brandy, somewhat freely administered. Keep the patient warm, and lying down in bed for some time after all dangerous symptoms have disappeared. Zinc.—This metal is used (practically) under the name of Galvanized Iron, for making pails and cisterns for water. Under certain circumstances the zinc dissolves to a sufficient extent to render the water poisonous. The Sulphate of Zinc or White Vitriol is in common use, as also the chloride, which is the basis of many soldering fluids and Burnett's disinfectant, a preparation not so popular now as it once was. Symptoms.—The white vitriol would in all probability act as an emetic. The chloride is a corrosive poison. There would be great pain, with white, corroded patches on lips and mouth. Treatnt.ent.—Baking soda dissolved in water; olive oil freely If much pain in the abdomen apply warm fomentations.